BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Formatting biblabel in a compact reference style

[epicurea]

Hi All - I am trying to achieve a very compact set of references and am using the savetrees package to do this:

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{\scriptsize
\bibliographystyle{savetrees}
\bibliography{TheBibFile}
}

I also wanted these to be formatted as inparaenum so I used the example from here:
http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~williams/mn2ebst/
To get:

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\renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{%
  \section*{\refname}
  \let\par\relax\let\newblock\relax
  \let\olditem\item
  \renewcommand{\item}[1][]{\olditem[\bfseries\olditem]}%bolds the bib label but produces even numbered refs!!!
  \inparaenum}{\endinparaenum}

As you can see from the above, I also wanted to make sure the biblabel was in bold so it was easier to find a reference in the block. However, this results all even ref numbers (i.e. 2, 4, 6...60 instead of 1, 2, 3...30).

As always, any help would be very much appreciated!

[kaiserkarl13]

You're skipping items because you used "\olditem" twice (the first increments the counter). I got it to work this way:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{savetrees}
\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage{url}

\begin{document}
    \renewenvironment{thebibliography}[1]{%
      \section*{\refname}
      \let\par\relax\let\newblock\relax
      \inparaenum
      \let\olditem\item
      \renewcommand{\item}[1][]{\textbf\olditem}
    }{\endinparaenum}

    {\scriptsize
    \nocite{*}
    \bibliographystyle{savetrees}
    \bibliography{TheBibFile}
    }
\end{document}

In the future, please provide a full minimal working example so I don't have to deduce which package "inparaenum" comes from.

The reason this "works" is because the \textbf only applies to the thing right after it, so it only grabs the number (which, thankfully, is in its own box and thus the whole number gets printed in bold).

[epicurea]

Hi - thanks very much for replying to my post - this works!

Sorry for not replying back earlier - I was very close to a submission deadline at the time and got the same solution from a friend who really knows his LaTeX!

Anyway, quick note for anyone else trying this: the package hyperref will interfere with this solution.

Cheers

[epicurea]

I forgot to add that anyone seeking to use the unsrt style in savetrees needs to do the following (thanks to Scott Pakin, the author of the savetrees package, for pointing this solution out to me):

• Copy savetrees.bst to savetrees-unsrt.bst.
  The file is located here for the TexLive 2013 distribution in Mac OS X:

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  /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/savetrees/

  Depending on the permissions in your system, you may be better off copying the new file to your local path.
• Edit your document to invoke \bibliographystyle{savetrees-unsrt}
  instead of \bibliographystyle{savetrees}.
• Comment out the "SORT" line near the bottom of savetrees-unsrt.bst
  by prepending a "%".

I am attaching my savetrees-unsrt.bst file here if you'd rather use that.